Hi,
I'm looking for help trying to prove links and branch out. My great-grandfather was Nichola Patierno (1877-1960). His parents were Carlo Luigi Patierno, b 1850, and Mariangiola Marinaccio, b 1852. His wife was Giuseppina (Josephine) Lotito, (1886-1973). I don't know her father's first name, but his last name was Lotito. Her Mother's name, at a guess was Katerina Viggiano, from Potenza. This was all formulated from census records, my mom's memory of her parents, the assistance of someone researching Patierno's tree. I know that when Guiseppina came over, she landed in Boston, MA, met her uncle Viggiano, and eventually met her husband and moved to Connecticut.

I would like to know if anyone else is researching the lines, or has some information they have tripped over.

The height of the tree with Patierno branches was provided to me by Steve Marinaccio who had already researched some of it in relation to his family. This side of the family was based in Savignano di Puglia. I still need to build it out with siblings in all generations.

I also have pictures of the headstones for Nichola and Josephine Patierno from Connecticut.

Your research on Ancestry.com will give you a good structure to research from. Have you sent away for any birth, death or marriage records from the appropriate states? These will help you find names of parents.

You can use the links in the first post to look up information on towns. If the town has been microfilmed by LDS great. If not, you have to write to the town for records.

Example here are the civil registration (birth, marriage an death) for Tito:

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